Motivational Quotes

Fear

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus